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Tracker / CVE-2012-0957

CVE-2012-0957

Medium 4.9

The override_release function in kernel/sys.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.16 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a uname system call in conjunction with a UNAME26 personality.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.4.15

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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